RE: Earliest North American Tyrannosaurids

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: Darryl Jones <dinoguy@sympatico.ca>

> At 08:21 AM 5/4/2002, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> > Indeed, from that point onward in North America there are no
> > non-tyrannosauroid (and, save for _Daspletosaurus_, no non-tyrannosaurID)
> > large theropods known.
>
> Whoa!  I must have really missed something.  Does this mean that
> Daspletosaurus is no longer considered part of the tyrannosauridae?  It is
> now tyrannosauroidae?  I am very confused.

No.  I think you might have read that wrong, Darryl.  What HP Holtz said was 
that, except for _Daspletosaurus_, there were no other known tyrannosaurids 
in North America (i.e. _Daspletosaurus_ is the only known tyrannosaurid from 
that time in that part of the world).
Hope that helped. ;)

Jordan Mallon

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